166 Assembly Proceedings, May 26-June 22, 1741.

U. H. J.
June 3

Wednesday Morning 3^d June 1741
The House met according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Adjourned till two of the Clock in the Afternoon

Eodem die Post Meridiem
The House met according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Read the Petition of Thomas Spalding of Saint Marys County
and Catherine his Wife praying Leave to bring in a Bill to cut of
the Entail of a Tract of Land called Coopers Purchase lying in

p. 798

St. Marys County aforesaid and to settle other Lands in Lieu
thereof
Read the Petition of Hannah Ratcliffe of Queen Anns County
Widow, Executrix of the last Will and Testament of William
Ratcliffe deceased praying an Allowance may be made her for a
Slave who died in Prison before Tryal belonging to her late Hus-
band and which Slave was by him apprehended and committed to
Prison for the Murder of his fellow Slave
Read the Petition of Archibald Douglas of Cecil County praying
Leave to bring in a Bill to invest him with an Estate in Fee Simple
in one moiety of a Tract of Land called the Levell or Scutts Levell
lying in Baltimore County the aforegoing Petitions are referred to
the Consideration of the Lower House of Assembly and sent by

Col^o Holliday

Adjourned till to Morrow Morning ten of the Clock

June 4

Thursday Morning 4 June 1741
This House met again according to Adjournment

Present as Yesterday
Mess^rs Hooper and Ennalls from the Lower House attend with
M^r Henry Trippe a Member reelected for Dorchester County in
Order to see him Qualified who takes the Oaths to the Government
appointed to be taken by Act of Assembly and subscribes the Ab-
juration and Test and then withdrew
Read the Petition of John Rogers of Kent County praying Leave
to bring in a Bill enabling Thomas Williams and Mary his Wife the
Relict of Benjamin Hopkins late of the said County to convey a
Tract of Land called Hangmans Folly lying in Kent County afore-
said to him the said Rogers in lieu of a Tract of Land to be conveyed
by the said Rogers to the said Hopkins for which the said Rogers
past his Bond to him for twenty thousand Pounds of Tobacco,
Rejected